Artists · Global Music Power
Ray Stevens
Charting Aug 26, 1961 → May 12, 1979 · 207 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 183 wk (3 at #1), UK Singles Chart 64 wk (1 at #1)
Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · How it works
Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists sums to less than 100.
- Peak Power
- 1.98%
- week of Jul 6, 1974
- Career Power
- 168
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 9
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 43
- April 1970 – April 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 87
- August 1969 – July 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 18
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 207
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.45%
- week of Jun 8, 1974
- Comebacks
- 2
- June 1969, May 1974
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Dec 8, 1962 | Jun 14, 1969 | 340 | 141 | 1.14% | 1.02% |
| After absence | Oct 31, 1970 | May 25, 1974 | 186 | 104 | 1.80% | 1.09% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).